Owensboro City Commission to vote Tuesday on Executive Inn purchase

The Owensboro City Commission will be meeting Tuesday to vote on whether to move ahead with the city’s plans to purchase the closed Executive Inn Rivermont property. 
Mayor Ron Payne announced Friday that the hotel’s owners, Marshall Investments, have accepted a $5 million offer for the property on the city’s riverfront. That offer is contingent upon [...]

Owensboro City Commission, Daviess Fiscal Court to hold work sessions

 The Owensboro City Commission will hold its first work session of the year and the first under new Mayor Ron Payne on Tuesday. 
The work session begins at noon in Room 406 at Owensboro City Hall, 101 E. Fourth St. 
Here’s the agenda - 
1.        Call to Order – Mayor Ron Payne
2.         Private Development Policy – City Engineer [...]

Notes from Tuesday’s Owensboro City Commission meeting

Some bits and pieces from Tuesday night’s meeting of the Owensboro City Commission -

Sanitation Superintendent Downey Ward shared some figures from the city’s cleanup effort following the Sept. 14 windstorm. Ward told the commission that the city had 80 streets blocked by fallen trees following the storm and more than 500 damaged or missing signs. [...]

Lexington mulls TIF plans

As the CentrePointe project moves forward in downtown Lexington, the Urban County Council is making plans to partner with the project’s developers on a tax increment financing district.
The council is expected to vote today on a resolution indicating its willingness to create a downtown TIF district around the CentrePointe project, Beverly Fortune reports in today’s [...]

Owensboro City Commission to hold work session Tuesday

The Owensboro City Commission will meet Tuesday at City Hall in Room 406 for its monthly work session.
Of particular interest will be the presentation by City Engineer Joe Schepers of his proposal regarding city annexation agreements. Schepers has been charged with revamping the way the city goes about annexing land to the city and outlining the [...]

Notes from Tuesday’s Owensboro City Commission meeting

A few items from tonight’s Owensboro City Commission meeting at City Hall -

Commissioner Cathy Armour read a note from Virginia Braswell, volunteer director for the local Habitat for Humanity chapter, that noted the organization is building its 80th and 81st houses in the Owensboro.

Braswell asked the commission to consider donating the land needed for additional [...]

A closer look at the AG’s open meetings ruling

On Monday, the Messenger-Inquirer learned that Attorney General Jack Conway’s office had ruled that discussions held by the city and county that included the decision to submit an offer for the Executive Inn Rivermont were not in violation of the state open meetings law.
The newspaper filed a complaint with the city and the county after [...]

Owensboro City Commission to hold work session next week

The Owensboro City Commission will hold its monthly work session Tuesday at noon. The meeting will be at City Hall at 101 E. Fourth St.
Here’s the agenda for the work session -

Presentation of Moreland Park master plan – Operations Manager Tony Cecil
Consideration of proposal to offer free fare for transit services – City Manager Bill [...]

Owensboro City Commission meets Tuesday

The Owensboro City Commission will have its first meeting of the month Tuesday night at 5 p.m. on the fourth floor of City Hall.
The agenda for the meeting is relatively light, with the commission scheduled to hear about ordinances governing the height of walls and fences, allowing limited retail establishments in A-U urban agriculture zones [...]

City, county reject Messenger-Inquirer’s open meetings law complaint

The city and county have rejected a complaint by the Messenger-Inquirer filed last week accusing the two government bodies of breaking Kentucky’s open meetings law with their recent decision to try to buy the Executive Inn Rivermont.
The gist of the response from the city and county is that neither body took “final action” in agreeing [...]